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I have the impression that the real shortage is of people that have REAL skills. The number of graduates is certainly correlated but somehow we fail in identify

• dalke 10y ago
  I have the impression that the real shortage is because people believe there are "talents", which encourages companies to ignore on-the-job training. There's of course good economic reasoning for this viewpoint. It forces job candidates to learn skills on their own dime, and companies don't end up training someone who then gets a higher paying job elsewhere. This in turn is a consequence of the modern view that people only spend a few years at any one job, rather than decades. This encourages employers to see employees as a resource to exploit, rather than to nurture.
  • falcolas 10y ago
    It's a vicious circle, and what makes it worse (from the outside) is that companies who are willing to take on fresh-from-college talent and mentor them up (and keep their salaries on par with the rest of the industry) tend to have lower churn. Which means they have fewer openings, but more competition for those openings. There's two major tech companies who do this locally, and they have some of the most loyal employees I've seen anywhere.